Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 99

She was, however, quite free from any physical deformity, although Kaela used to say she was a little crooked; but no eye, save an intimate acquaintance, would have noticed it.

Who acts: Sophy, Kaela, eye · What happens: be, use, say, save, notice · To what, where: physical deformity, intimate acquaintance, deformity · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sophy, Kaela, eye), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 free	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 free	cop
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 free	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	7 free	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 free	punct
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 free	advmod
7	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 deformity	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 deformity	det
10	physical	physical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 deformity	amod
11	deformity	deformity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 free	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 used	punct
13	although	although	SCONJ	_	15 used	mark
14	Kaela	Kaela	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 used	nsubj
15	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 free	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 say	mark
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 used	xcomp
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 crooked	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 crooked	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 little	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 crooked	obl:unmarked
22	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 say	ccomp
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 save	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 save	cc
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 eye	det
26	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 save	nsubj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 eye	punct
28	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 free	parataxis
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 acquaintance	det
30	intimate	intimate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 acquaintance	amod
31	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 save	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 noticed	punct
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 noticed	aux
34	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 noticed	aux
35	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 save	parataxis
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 noticed	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 free	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Sophy		any physical deformity	free, however property	tree rules
2	use	past	Kaela				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Kaela not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Sophy			a little obl:unmarked; crooked property	tree rules
5	save	infinitive	no eye	a intimate acquaintance			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acquaintance=Theme
6	notice	would · perfect		deformity			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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